We replaced all of the grass in our back yard. Most areas we covered with paver flagstones, and in the side yard we covered it with playground bark. When it rains, the dogs get wet but they don’t get muddy. It’s made a huge difference.

It’s not dangerous if you know what you are doing. Animals simply aren’t a big concern. Your biggest danger is getting lost, hurt, or both, and having to spend a night outdoors. Prepare for that and you’ll be fine.

Introducing yourself is fine, even nice. But if you don’t maintain contact, they will have forgotten your name within the week and you likely won’t talk to them again for six months.

Fun fact: the Puyallup tribal alphabet wasn’t created until the mid 1800’s and was not finalized until around 1970.

So any spelling of “Tahoma” would, by necessity, be using a tribal written language that didn’t even exist when Rainier was named.

While we are busy bashing western civilization for every evil under the sun, let’s maybe stop and think about how useful English is.

Another fun fact: the Yakama tribe changed names a few years back. The tribe did not have a written language and there were several copies of the treaty. Some spelled it “Yakima”, some spelled it “Yakama.” For almost 100 years everyone was fine with Yakima, until the tribe decided it needed to be changed. The city basically said do whatever you want, we’re good. That’s why they are spelled differently.

It’s the name everyone uses. It’s known worldwide as Mt Rainier. “Popular use” isn’t a big mystery.

There’s no need to change it except anti-White bigotry.

This is what happens when someone invades the Reddit echo chamber. You seem shocked someone would disagree with you. Believe it or not, there are a lot of people who are just fucking tired with the constant effort to shit on everything.

Leave Rainier alone.

Why not? It’s been in popular and accepted use for more than 100 years. There’s no need to change to what it was “originally” when there ISN’T a single name it was originally.

Rainier is just fine.

Some of the natives. It wasn’t unanimous yet somehow one tribe wins out over the others.

Sort of like when it was named Rainier.

The American Alps. Diablo and Ross Lakes are fantastic.

Maura Tierney. She killed it in The Affair and I’d like to see her do something similar to what Michael Imperioli did in S2.

“Eruption” is misspelled under Mt St Helens.

Yeah, that’s not true at all.

Speaking of the unreliable narrator - I find this article fascinating.

I personally abhor when activists try to retroactively find social commentary in works the author never intended, but this article makes a fairly persuasive argument that Fitzgerald did intend it. I mean, Fitzgerald wrote each word, he included it in the book, it has to mean SOMETHING.

https://themillions.com/2018/04/the-queering-of-nick-carraway.html

Like I said, almost a century. Closer to 100 than 50, to be sure.

And be careful drawing broad strokes about critics - it wasn’t a commercial success, but a number of critics and colleague praised it quite highly. It wasn’t universally panned.

It’s a fantastic novel and has been recognized as such for almost a century. If you think it’s just about rich people and high society, you’re really missing quite a bit.

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

One of the best lines in literature, has nothing to do with wealth.

Definitely take Snoqualmie. Odds are it will be fine but even if the pass is temporarily closed, it’s usually less than half a day.